This Morningside Heights two-bedroom, as shown in listing photos, has period details, recently updated electrical, and a location close to Riverside Park.
Photo-Illustration: Curbed; Corcoran Group
For under a million dollars, one can find all sorts of housing configurations: park- and subway-adjacent studios, one-bedrooms hidden in carriage houses or former shoe factories, and even the occasional true two-bedroom. We’re combing the market for particularly spacious, nicely renovated, or otherwise worth-a-look apartments at various six-digit price points.
We’ve found you a sweet West Village studio and a Morningside Heights two-bedroom with a dining room.
The kitchen in this Lenox Hill two-bedroom, as shown in listing photos, has been recently updated, and has a dishwasher and sleek white cabinetry. The apartment also has a washer and dryer.
Photo: Corcoran Group
The block-long Beaux-Arts complex where this two-bedroom co-op is located was originally built as a respite for tenement dwellers with tuberculosis, hence the three balconies and huge, floor-to-ceiling windows. Even though the building became a co-op in the 1920s, the abundant light, air, and East River breezes — it’s about a block from the waterfront — remained. This unit has hardwood floors, a recent kitchen renovation with a dishwasher, and a washer and dryer. The main downside, besides being somewhat far from the subway, is that it’s a third-floor walk-up. It’s also rented out through next April. But what it lacks in convenience, it makes up for in charm, and all the walking and climbing involved in living here do confer health benefits, just as its architects intended.
This West Village studio, as shown in listing photos, is on the top floor of a prewar co-op, with period details like high ceilings, large windows, wood floors, and an old fireplace.
Photo: Compass
A small but lovely studio on the top floor of a prewar elevator building, this apartment has ten-foot ceilings, hardwood floors, and an old fireplace that’s perfect for candles. The main living area has two large south-facing windows, with smaller eastern windows in the sleeping area, kitchen, and bathroom. The kitchen is, not surprisingly for a West Village studio, tiny and looks like it hasn’t been renovated in some time. But this being the West Village, Bar Pitti and Buvette are less than ten-minute walks away. Though reasonably priced, with a reasonable monthly maintenance of $1,216, buyers will need to have the full half-million handy, as the listing is cash only.
This Morningside Heights two bedroom, as shown in listing photos, has a full dining room, connected to the living room, and a large, non-galley kitchen.
Photo: Corcoran Group
This prewar two-bedroom apartment is very nearly a classic six, save for a missing maid’s room and half bath off the kitchen. It’s rare to find a true two bedroom with a living room and a dining room under a million in this neighborhood, even in the more affordable pocket just north of Riverside Park. This apartment is full of turn-of-the-century details: wainscotting, transoms, molding, brass hardware, and it got new hardwood floors and electrical upgrades in 2011. The bedrooms are on the smaller side, but they have closets and windows and the shared spaces are big and airy — besides the large living and dining rooms, there’s a separate kitchen that’s not a galley (it’s a real room) and a foyer with a coat closet. In an elevator, pet-friendly building right by Riverside Park.
This Bed-Stuy studio, as shown in listing photos, is functionally a one-bedroom and has incredible period details, like this ornate fireplace.
Photo: Brown Harris Stevens
While legally a studio because the bedroom is just shy of 80 square feet, this apartment, located in a Romanesque revival mansion, is functionally a one-bedroom. It’s divided down the middle, splitting the two windows, with the living room, a long narrow space with an ornate fireplace, on one side, and the bedroom, which measures about 9.5 feet by 8.5 feet, on the other. There’s a dining area, bathroom, and compact kitchen in the back. The apartment is in a grand 1891 building that’s now an income-restricted HDFC, meaning that a buyer can only earn a maximum of $130,440 a year (it’s slightly higher for two). The transit situation is also somewhat inconvenient: The express A train at Nostrand is about a half-mile walk away, as is the local C at Kingston-Throop.
